Local branding and a sense of local identity – the main pre-occupations of this site – were a key component of the Tower Hamlets Neighbourhood political experiment. So, what remains of them visually? Early in January 2017, I set out on a walk around the Borough to find out…

Remember the Tower Hamlets Neighbourhoods? As an experiment in political devolution they only lasted from 1986 to 1994, so you could be forgiven for having forgotten about them. Building a sense of neighbourhood identity was an essential element of the scheme and on a crisp and cold morning in January 2017, I went on a walk around Tower Hamlets to see what remained visually of the Neighbourhoods. Given that they had been abandoned 23 years earlier, I wasn’t hopeful of finding much…